Alleged “Consensus on Climate Change” Is Actually Only 75 Hand-Picked US Scientists

Considering that we’re living in a time when news outlets on both sides of the political spectrum are screaming “fake news” about anything and everything written or said by anyone other than themselves, this article and the video before it will come as fantastic news for anyone looking to retire their status as a “climate denier” for good.

If the whole “climate change” debate wasn’t so dishonest, so corrupt, and so fraudulent, once you finally find out where the numbers liberals have been throwing at you for years actually come from, you’d probably die of laughter. Unfortunately, when you consider how many hard working Americans Al Gore must have stolen from to become a billionaire based on a perpetual lie, it becomes less funny.

According to liberal blowhards like Al Gore and Barack Obama, we always hear how Climate Change is “settled science,” right? They tell us that 97% of scientists all agree that climate change is man-made, and 97% is 97% right? Sure it is, just like 100 million unemployed Americans in a country of 320 million Americans is an unemployment rate of 4.7%.

In the article below, you’re about to learn exactly where that 97% figure that gets liberals throw out as “settled science” actually comes from… meaning… the actual arithmetic that leads to 97%. It turns out, “97 of all scientists,” is actually only a few dozen Californian scientists speaking for the world without permission. Shock right?

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of interviewing Dave DuByne from YouTube Channel Adapt 2030. Since Dave studies “Climate Change” intimately, he took the debunking of “climate change” to a new level during the interview, but we hardly stopped there…

We also dove into theories about who is most likely responsible for continuing to perpetuate the false “Climate Change” narrative, why, how the “Climate Change” agenda relates to the coming global economic collapse, and how all of it ultimately is responsible for ushering in the global police state…

For even more evidence that the liberal version of “Climate Change” is pure nonsense, and in keeping with what Dave said in the prior video, despite all the hype around the global warming computer models and climate science predictions – reality has not confirmed the often repeated doomsday claims. In the video below, Stefan Molyneux speaks with William Happer about the flaws in the climate science models, obvious errors which have been overlooked, the demonization of CO2 and the implicit bias within climate science.

William Happer is a professor at Princeton University in the field of atomic physics, optics, and spectroscopy. He is a Director with the CO2 Coalition and served as the Department of Energy’s Office of Science Director under the George H. W. Bush administration. For your information, Dr. Happer will be speaking at the “Global-Warming: An Inconvenient Lie” conference in Phoenix, Arizona from December 2-4th, 2016.

In the current ridiculous battle over “real news” vs. “fake news,” the establishment media liars all claim that climate change is the perfect example of how “fake news” keeps interfering with their truthful facts.

They repeatedly claim that 97% of scientists agree on man-made climate change, and therefore anyone who disagrees is obviously shoveling “fake” news.

But wait a second. Where does that “97%” claim really come from? They sure repeat it a lot. Is it a legitimate representation of the science?

Author Mark Steyn dug into that question in the search for a more authoritative answer.

What he uncovered was so much fraud and deception by climate change propagandists that he compiled an entire book on the matter entitled A Disgrace to the Profession.

Here’s an excerpt that explains the shocking intellectual fraud behind the “97% of scientists” claim:

An opinion survey of earth scientists on global climate change was conducted by Margaret R K Zimmerman, MS, and published by the University of Illinois in 2008.

Aside from his support from Dr Pantsdoumi, Mann often claims the imprimatur of “settled science”: 97 per cent of the world’s scientists supposedly believe in catastrophic anthropogenic global warming requiring massive government intervention.

That percentage derives from a survey conducted for a thesis by M R K Zimmerman.

The “survey” was a two-question, online questionnaire sent to 10,257 earth scientists, of whom [only] 3,146 responded.

Of the responding scientists, 96.2 per cent came from North America.

Only 6.2 per cent came from Canada. So the United States is overrepresented even within that North American sample.

Nine per cent of US respondents are from California. So California is overrepresented within not just the US sample: it has over twice as large a share of the sample as Europe, Asia, Australia, the Pacific, Latin America and Africa combined.

Of the ten per cent of non-US respondents, Canada has 62 per cent.

Not content with such a distorted sample, the researchers then selected 79 of their sample and declared them “experts.”

Of those 79 scientists, two were excluded from a second supplementary question. So 75 out of 77 made it through to the final round, and 97.4 per cent were found to agree with “the consensus”. That’s where the 97 per cent comes from.

So this is a very Michael Mann “reconstruction”: just as a couple of Californian bristlecones can determine the climate for a millennium, so a couple of dozen Californian scientists can determine the consensus of the world.

Nonetheless, the compilers also invited comments from respondents and published them in the appendices.

In terms of specific scientific material, the hockey stick attracted three comments – one blandly positive, the other two not so much.

Wow, you mean the 97% consensus number comes from just 75 scientists that were hand-picked from an email survey?

Yep. Out of the hundreds of thousands of scientists in the world, only 75 of them were selected to “count” for the climate change survey that every mainstream media news organization quotes as FACT.

Not quite the “settled science” you’ve been told, is it? In fact, it all looks rather shoddy.

Yet this is the sort of propaganda that passes as “real news” while anyone who questions obviously faulty science claims is said to be trafficking in “fake news.”

So if “real news” is based on the cherry-picked answers from a wildly distorted, misrepresentative group of scientists whose responses were compiled by a pro-climate change “scientist” who obviously altered the responses to fit her own subjective beliefs, just how solid is the claimed authority of “real” news authenticity in the first place?

Furthermore, the very idea that science is “settled” is anti-scientific.

Science is never really settled, since the heart of legitimate science is an openness to exploration, discovery and revolutions in new ideas that render old ideas obsolete.

Yet today, we are told by the Ministry of Truth fact checkers and monopolistic purveyors of self-proclaimed “real news” that only their views are legitimate and no one else is allowed to even question a “settled” set of beliefs.

“Consensus science” is unscientific by definition… reality isn’t decided by a consensus of faulty human beliefs

Thus, the very approach of proclaiming science to be “settled” is, itself, anti-scientific. Any set of supposed facts that cannot withstand questioning, criticism or debate is no science at all.

Yet stifling debate is precisely what the new “news truth” brigade is attempting to accomplish: the elimination of scientific dissent and alternative views.

Michael is a member of the fast growing un-silent American majority that is sick of the insanity going on in this country right now. He has been accused of being vitriolic, bombastic, sarcastic to the extreme, and probably worse behind his back. Michael is sick of being branded a right wing-extremist, racist, homophobe, warmonger, or whatever other asinine adjectives Liberal Progressives have for the words COMMON SENSE these days. Michael is also a blogger at The Last Great Stand and an Attorney.

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